We received a couple letters last week about our airport issue – and here they are.
I opened this week's Insider with great anticipation to read about the happenings at Concord Airport. How sad that the history ended in 1946, before a mention of the air shows, the work of the Airport Advisory Committee, recent federal funding to improve the runway lighting, the comraderie of the membership of the Henniker Flying Club (based at the airport), a business called Craig Avionics, or the 2006 construction of the Concord North Ramp Hangar Condominium Association on the north side of the airport. This new building provides airplane storage and a lounge to its users. To those of us who dedicate our free time to these endeavors, your story did not do justice to the many dedicated volunteers and business people who use the airport.
-Holly Fazzino, Hopkinton
Amy: a word of advice (since you are so young) with regard to anything happening before 1980: The aircraft you referred to “named Jenny” was most likely “a” Jenny. It was so named because its official designation by the company was the Curtiss JN-4. It was a popular plane, used by the US Army Air Corps. I have a photo of my grandmother sitting in the cockpit of a Jenny. Her husband was a flier although I doubt he took her up – it was an Army plane, not yet a private plane. Somewhere around the house I have another photo of one crashing during an air show put on by the Army when I was about 4 years old. You need to brush up on the pre-World War II planes. (Never know when they may make a comeback). I can still name nearly every one of ours, plus all the German and Japanese aircraft. I flew in World War II as a navigator in B-24s. Nice article on the airport.
-Steve Leavenworth, Concord
